Metropolitan police are asking women in Georgetown to walk in groups after three recent robberies, two armed, of women walking unaccompanied.

The first incident occurred at 7 p.m. April 11, when a woman walking near 31st and Q streets was robbed of her purse by man with a gun. At 9:10 p.m. April 12, a woman walking home alone was robbed at 27th and N streets by a man wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt. And at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, a woman was robbed near 29th and N streets by a man who demanded her purse while holding a gun at her side.